The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion PoeticalPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 214 páginas During the sixteenth century in England the logocentrism of the Middle Ages was confronted by a materialism that heralded the modern world. With remarkable tenacity in music, poetry, and painting, the orthodox aesthetic persisted as formal features which served as nonverbal signs and provided a subtext of form. In opposition, however, a radical aesthetic emerged to accommodate the new attention to physical nature. The growing force of materialism occasioned a fundamental rethinking of what an artifact might represent and how that representation might be achieved. This book explores the ontological and epistemological issues that poststructuralist thought raises about that shift in our cultural history. In doing so, it charts a course for Renaissance studies, now in disarray, that avoids the old positivism while not succumbing to the new nihilism. |
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... determining the start of the Renaissance proved easy compared to determining its end . Did it terminate with widespread adoption of the sci- entific method in the seventeenth century ? With the triumph of reason in the eighteenth ...
... determined by arith- metical calculation - what we still call an octave ; and harmony consisted of proportions between these mathematically determined points on a con- tinuous scale of sound . Mathematical ratios could be realized not ...
... " Certainly , 19. See my Sidney and Spenser , 114–25 . 20. In Plato's Cratylus Hermogenes argues that a vocabulary is culturally determined : words as in the Phaedrus ( 268A - 275E ) , Socrates and His Versified Aesop 47.
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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